Games Workshop Sam and Frodo in Orc Armor verDC23

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Games Workshop Sam and Frodo in Orc Armor verDC23photo

I realized last weekend that I never posted this quick project here in my blog. I then re-touched some details and highlights and immediately took some photos.

These are Lord of the Rings pewter figures from Games Workshop. Quick and so much fun to do as you just have to scrape off the mold lines and paint away! As usual these pewter figures are painted with Vallejo Acrylics. Vallejo Surface Primer, Vallejo Model Colors, Game Colors, Texture Paints and sealed with Vallejo Satin Varnish.

Any modeler should try their hands on something like this. Cool little figures that are so nice on your office desk. Thanks as always for dropping by! Until next post guys! Just enjoy the hobby! :)

Work in Progress

Brand Spankin' NEW Valentine Products in at BOTH Stores!

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Come on in and check out all the lovely NEW Valentine goods that have arrived!

Featured Modelers @Instagram

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EDIT: renamed my Instagram to my real name as I do not
exclusively do Mecha these days anymore. I mostly paint and do whatever I
like. So my Instagram name is now...

@don_suratos

GET FEATURED @Instagram

Although I will try to continue to feature people here at my blog as much as I can. I find it more difficult to blog in my iPhone as the Blogger App compresses the photos to smaller uglier sizes.

So I thought featuring your works at my Instagram account will be much much easier in my iPhone. You do NOT need to email me the photos...

Just post your Instagram account and your awesome work at our Facebook GROUP page below...

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and If the quality of the photoshoot is good enough, I will immediately post one photo of your work with your Instagram account name. I currently have 4k followers at Instagram and featuring your work might get you the same awesome followers. Your featured works at Instagram also gets automatically featured on top of this blog.

This is just my own little way of featuring very talented modelers all around and my own little way of giving back for posting your awesome works at my Facebook Group Page! Thanks a ton for the support guys! Let's just enjoy the hobby and inspire each other!

Keep posting those awesome works!

1/48 Mega Scale Zaku Diorama " Dead Turtle " modeled by Don Suratos akaDC23

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Mega Scale Zaku Diorama Dead Turtle modeled by Don Suratos akaDC23photo

Just finished this piece today. I wanted to finish something quick to start the year on a productive good note. This was my old sponsored 1/48 Zaku kit I got from Greattoysonline.com way back. I originally plan to use this for a huge hangar diorama, but I just cannot find enough materials ( 1mm rods and tubes ) to work on that project.

I was working on a few commissioned works during the December holidays ( MG Zeta Karaba and MG Z'gok ) but I really felt like rushing and painting something quick to start the year with a conpleted work. So I ended up finishing this quick painting project.

As you can see, I wanted to paint it as soon as possible thus I failed to detail the other parts to match the detailing of the head and shoulder armors. I did manage to add a gazillion of rivet work all over the kit to somehow give it a consistent look. The rivets used were cheap sewing pins which is not as easy to install ( you need tweezers ) as it looks. I also failed to add battle damage to the amputated right leg as I really wanted to paint already.

Although I feel I could have done more modifications and worked with this kit for another week, at least I had so much fun painting this with my old stock of Vallejo paints and washes before the holidays end and before I report back to my dayjob.

The kit was primed with Vallejo Grey Surface Primer, Vallejo Rust colored Model Colors, some Vallejo Game Colors and Vallejo Model Airs. The kit was weathered with Vallejo washes, inks and pigments and the kit was sealed with Vallejo Satin Varnish! Dang I love my non-toxic Acrylic paints ( lol )!

I really like the flat look of the Vallejo Satin Varnish. It has a very subtle sheen rather than a really chalky flat look! You just need to mix around 10% of Vallejo airbrush thinner to make the varnish more suitable for airbrush use.

I learned and re-learned a lot of weathering techniques with this build. Much like the modifications, I could paint this for another week, but felt the kit has served its purpose already.. now moving on to my other projects.

Hope you like this post ( will edit this post and add gazillion of photos soon ).

Thanks as always for dropping by! Until next post guys! Just enjoy the hobby! :)

1/48 Mega Scale Zaku verDC23 Primed

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I just finished priming this old project. I wanted to finish a kit before I report back to work on Monday and to make a good start to 2015. I did not want to rush my MG Z'Gok and MG Zeta Karaba just to finish something as both are commissioned works.

I got lazy and stopped detailing this project today as I want to paint and weather this already. Although I have colds since Monday, I hope to finish this project soon. This should be basically a weathering practice kit for me and hope to pull off better weathering on this kit.

The diorama or base is entirely made of styrene and textured with Vallejo texture paints. The kit is primed with Vallejo White Polyurethane Primer as usual.

Thanks as always for dropping by! Until next update guys! Just enjoy the hobby! :)